I used to defend Crucible and Destiny. I had worked on improving my "stats" over the last few months, as before that I never cared. I changed from a run and gun die a million times per game player into playing reserved and picking spots and picking gun fights to get invovled with. I'll preface by saying I was a sidearm user WAY before the patch update. But only used them as self defense weapons when my scout rifle would not be ideal in a situation. For a few months I'd play a couple hours per day and have one or two matches at most with a negative K/D and often one of those would be when joining the end of a match. But how Crucible evolved the last week or two is garbage. Full fire teams stomping the shit out of randoms, red bars everywhere. Utter -blam!-ing chaos. There is no way to play reserved anymore and there is no room or time to breathe. Its constant bum rushing, bunny hopping, red bar laggers and network exploiters. You can't get into long-range gun fights now because No Land Beyond has no finch, all snipers are one hit kill weapons, pulse rifles are two crit kills and have the range of sniper rifles for some stupid reason, hand cannons have become the primary weapon meta and they kill in two shots or less... Bungie decided to cater to the whiners that wanted quick time to kill. For some reason Bungie decided to castrate scout rifles. Their damage output is far below what they should be in comparison to pulse rifles. They stripped scout rifles of dealing flinch while every other weapon deals flinch. I miss the shotgun meta because at least you could counter by playing with long-range weapons. This current meta shoves every damn thing down your throat at once. There is no play style to counter. I have tried everything in an attempt to figure out how to counter it. Long range gun fights are gone. Snipers and pulse rifles win every time. Scout rifles can't counter now. Mid range gun fights are gone because of hand cannons and their two hit kill. Short range gun fights are gone because of sidearms. You can't be out in the open because snipers. You can't fight from cover because bum rushers. MAP ROTATION IS GONE. I am shoved into the same 3 or 4 -blam!-ing maps over and over. I have barely seen Rusted Lands. Today was the first time I saw Rusted Lands in two weeks. The first week and a half or so after the patch the meta was still evolving and there was more weapon diversity. But as players had more time to acquire "god roll" hand cannons and sniper rifles the Crucible has degenerated into such a shit show it is nearly unplayable. I had defended Crucible and Destiny for so long but I am finally now among the detractors...and it is Bungie's own fault. They can't just stop -blam!-ing their own game. They alienate players with certain play styles. And as they have pushed each group out over time they finally reached the group i belong to. Reserved play style with scout rifle low kill numbers but low deaths. And to add to this mess they are now removing our choice of what Crucible playlist we want. Now we will be forced to play what ever arbitrary game type they shove in our face each week... I have never seen a game developer so hell bent on wanting their mass player population to be bad at their game, to not have fun playing their game, to not be successful playing their game, to be denied items in the game, and to be blocked from playing content in the game... What then is my money going to? So "streamers" can have what they want? I HATE to say this about a game I love...but I may finally be one of those who say they are done until Destiny 2 is released. I am curious to see how things develop over the first couple of weeks after the next update but if it is still unbearable...i guess thats it.